Nigeria currently has 2.182 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) a reduction from the 2020 figure of 2.37 million which was the second highest number of IDPS since 2013. The highest number of IDPs was recorded in 2013, with a total of 3.3 million persons.
Insecurity and conflict, occasioned by Boko Haram insurgency, clashes between farmers and herders, banditry and kidnapping and other non-state armed groups are responsible for the larger number of displacements in Nigeria. Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in the North East have the largest numbers of internally displaced persons.
Flood is another factor responsible for a significant amount of displacements in Nigeria and often combines with conflict and insecurity to exacerbate displacement.
Nigeria has a total of 143,110 IDP camps out of which 84% are located in Borno state.
Nigeria has the third highest number of IDPs in Africa as at 2020, Democratic Republic of Congo comes first and Somalia comes second.
As the state of insecurity continues to worsen and the impacts of climate change engenders increasingly worsening floods, displacement figures may continue to rise.